No closure for topless coffee shop owner

January 08, 2012

For law enforcement officials, the case of a fire set at a coffee shop where topless waitresses worked ended with an arson conviction. But the man who operated the business says there’s no closure for him.

Donald Crabtree told the Kennebec Journal ( http://bit.ly/AcBw2H) that he’ll always wonder if police got the right man.

The night before the fire on June 3, 2009, Crabtree asked the Vassalboro Planning Board to allow him to turn the coffee shop into a strip club.

Crabtree says he’s uneasy because of the timing of the fire and the defense claim that police declined to investigate alternative suspects. Prosecutors say Raymond Bellavance Jr., who was convicted of setting the fire, was jealous because Crabtree was having a relationship with his former girlfriend.

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Information from: Kennebec Journal, http://www.kjonline.com/

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